... how will you know? Without measuring "success" (however you define it) you will never know.
It may have already happened and you missed it.
It may have already happened and you missed it.
My definition of success is when people share my site because they see it as something very valuable (hopefuly one day...). I can't really miss it since the same questions come back over and over in the subreddit in which I'm active (taht's probably the case for the whole of reddit as well).